You may remember him from the time he took the team to the championship or, perhaps, from his association with a secret society at an old college. Still, others will always associate him as the father who doomed his family by moving from one haunted house to another. Whatever memories you have, it’s time to celebrate Craig T. Nelson’s birthday on April 4th.

As a tribute to the man who doesn’t consider food stamps and welfare to be government help (see below), we dug up this lost pilot opening sequence of Coach. In this version, the character he portrays in the Poltergeist films goes sitcom after being offered a football coaching gig at a haunted university.